Search results for "Grant Green"

Grant Green: A Day in the Life (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

Other prominent soul-jazz guitarists hitched onto the Beatles train (e.g., Wes Montgomery's 1967 A Day in the Life an...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Grant Green: Ain't It Funky Now (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

This is the ultimate rare groove—true funk perfection. The undemanding harmony forces the focus onto the rhythm, whic...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Jeff Beck: Love Is Green (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 22, 08

In this download age, the 5- to 10-sentence album reviews that appear in music magazines and on music web sites are o...

Grant Green: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 09, 08

Some of Grant Green's most memorable recorded tracks happen to be of long duration, such as "Idle Moments" and "Nomad...

Grant Green: The Final Comedown (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

As a soundtrack song from a 1972 blaxploitation movie of the same name, “The Final Comedown” isn’t really a song; it’...

Grant Green: Idle Moments (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Legend has it (well, actually it's in the liner notes) that due to a misunderstanding of how many bars constituted a ...

Grant Green: Jean de Fleur (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

There was an attractive freshness and simplicity to Grant Green's linear-styled playing, and his bluesy tone was inst...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR

          The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...

Grant Green: Talkin' About J.C. (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Larry Young, an original voice who approached the organ more like a piano, seldom recorded in a trio setting, so it i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TO B-3 OR NOT B-3 . . . A GUIDE TO JAZZ ORGAN TRIOS

Despite the undisputed genius of its most famous player, “The Incredible” Jimmy Smith, the organ has always had to fi...

Grant Green: Old Folks (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Many of the finest organ trio recordings were actually made under the guitarist’s name as leader. Guitarist Grant Gre...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TO B-3 OR NOT B-3 . . . A GUIDE TO JAZZ ORGAN TRIOS

Despite the undisputed genius of its most famous player, “The Incredible” Jimmy Smith, the organ has always had to fi...

Grant Green: Windjammer (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

Grant Green plays mostly rhythm guitar throughout this track, but it becomes the lead instrument anyway as he stays i...

Grant Green: Betcha By Golly Wow (Rating: 72/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

After audible audience profanity during the intro drags this track down a notch, five minutes of chorus reiteration i...

Ike Quebec: Blue and Sentimental (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

One aspect of Ike Quebec's playing that was conveyed so eloquently on his "comeback" Blue Note albums of the early '6...

Lee Morgan: Search For The New Land (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

Recorded not even two months later yet far from the carefree groove of his hit single “The Sidewinder,” Morgan travel...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

The collaborations between Billie Holiday and Lester Young still speak to us today -- and not just as historical docu...

Lester Young: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 24, 09

Although Lester Young will forever be associated with Kansas City jazz, he came from a Louisiana family and spent muc...

Green, Grant posted in Encyclopedia May 23, 08

A master of melodies, guitarist Grant Green's crisply enunciated single-note lines flow as smoothly as the Mississip...

Greene, Burton (Garrett) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Greene, Burton (Garrett), piano; b. Chicago, IL, 14 June 1937. Narada is a spiritual name given to him by his yoga te...

Young, Larry Jr. (Khaled Yasin) posted in Encyclopedia April 21, 08

Organist Larry Young expanded the possibilities of the Hammond B3 beyond the trio into fusion and beyond, prompting J...

Dixon, Ben (Harold) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Dixon, Ben (Harold), drummer, composer, arranger, teacher, clinician; b. Gaffney, SC, 25 December 1934.  As an i...

Ranelin, Phil (Phillip Arthur) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ranelin, Phil (Phillip Arthur), trombonist, composer, arranger, producer; b. Indianapolis, IN, 25 May 1939. From 1...

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